Education Quotes - Page 111

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

Those who trust us educate us.

"Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.

There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.

Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.

You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.

Scotland has never ceased to amaze the world with its forward vision, bold action and great educational institutions. Nothing makes me more proud than to promote this wonderful land with all its richness and diversity wherever I go.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it be great if every child heard good speech and received thoughtful answers to their questions instead of 'be quiet' or 'go to bed'?

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.

A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

Our hope is to support projects that promote the personal and educational development of young people through creative programs that embrace innovation while celebrating rich traditions and cultural exchange

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.